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TIL Dolly Parton wrote “Jolene” and “I Will Always Love You” (later covered by Whitney Houston, and one of the best selling singles of all time) on the same night
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Submitted March 02, 2019 at 04:30PM by fumbles26
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TIL There is a water reservoir floating in space that is equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world's ocean.
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Submitted March 02, 2019 at 07:23PM by Planet6EQUJ5
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TIL Chimpanzees have been known to steal alcohol, get drunk, then attack humans after mistaking them for monkeys
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Submitted March 02, 2019 at 07:51PM by MrDrexel22
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TIL that a 2002 episode of "The Twilight Zone" addressed the novikov self-consistency principle of time travel: a woman, played by Katherine Heigl, goes back in time to kill baby Hitler. She succeeds, but his mother adopts a child and raises him as Adolf. He grows up to lead the Nazi Party.
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Submitted March 02, 2019 at 08:39PM by ChaseDonovan
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TIL The Queen of England still has a Champion. The noscript is currently held by a 64 year old accountant.
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Submitted March 02, 2019 at 10:06PM by February30th
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TIL that the Dow Jones Industrial Average will continually rise and break new records because the Dow ignores inflation and is heavily curated, meaning underperforming companies are periodically removed from the index and replaced by companies that are performing better.
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Submitted March 02, 2019 at 11:12PM by ralphbernardo
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TIL Tupac was a ballet dancer, and played the role of the Mouse King in The Nutcracker.
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Submitted March 02, 2019 at 10:38PM by RedditKon
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TIL conservationists in South Africa have been injecting rhino horns with red dyes and toxins to prevent poaching. The mixture renders the horn completely useless to those trying to sell it commercially and is also toxic for human consumption.
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Submitted March 03, 2019 at 12:59AM by TirelessGuardian
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TIL Neil Young not only used to own a part of the Lionel LLC model train company, he also helped design the Lionel Legacy control system and his name is on seven model train-related patents.
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Submitted March 03, 2019 at 12:00AM by YourOwnBiggestFan
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TIL The Queen of England can fire the entire Australian government. In 1975 her representative in Australia fired the prime minister of Australia and the rest of parliament in response to a government shutdown. There hasn’t been another shutdown since.
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Submitted March 03, 2019 at 04:18AM by Jacobr196
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TIL that Cement is the most widely used material in existence and is the second most consumed resource on earth, behind water.
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Submitted March 03, 2019 at 12:32AM by shokolokobangoshey
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TIL in 1945, a school dropout and self-taught electrical engineer named Percy Spencer was working at Ratheon. He stepped in front of a magnetron, a device that powers radars. He noticed a chocolate bar in his pocket had melted. Later that year, he filed a patent for the first microwave oven.
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Submitted March 03, 2019 at 02:05AM by PlatinumAero
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TIL about the Doomsday Algorithm - a method to mentally calculate the day of the week given any date based on the fact that 4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10, 12/12 all occur on the same day of the week regardless of the year.
https://ift.tt/1vu389D

Submitted March 03, 2019 at 05:35AM by shut_your_cock
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TIL of William Rankin who survived ejecting from his plane and the failure of his parachute, then spent 40 minutes falling through a several-miles-deep cumulonimbus cloud which featured lightning strikes, a hailstorm and what he described as the "feeling" of thunder.
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Submitted March 03, 2019 at 12:09PM by GrooveMachine101
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TIL: Most Coal formed before Fungus could break down trees. After Fungus evolved to do so, Coal became far less likely to form naturally making it a true non-renewable resource.
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Submitted March 03, 2019 at 07:59AM by Auzy
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TIL of William Rankin who survived ejecting from his plane and the failure of his parachute, then spent 40 minutes falling through a several-miles-deep cumulonimbus cloud which featured lightning strikes, a hailstorm and what he described as the "feeling" of thunder.
https://ift.tt/1EBK1um

Submitted March 03, 2019 at 12:09PM by GrooveMachine101
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TIL San Diego Zoo had an orangutan named Ken who escaped several times. During his escapes, he just wandered around the zoo & looked at all the animals in their enclosures. One time, he went to the enclosure of another orangutan he disliked & threw rocks at him.
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Submitted March 03, 2019 at 05:40PM by tilpeo
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TIL that in the earliest surviving depiction of Jesus and the Crucifixion, Jesus is shown as a donkey. The image is a Roman graffito scratched on a wall in Rome somewhere in the 2nd century, apparently to mock Christians.
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Submitted March 03, 2019 at 03:13PM by Virble
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TIL: When David Levy was born in Morocco with the rare congenital condition of aposthia- having no foreskin- the local rabbis prophesied he’d be the leader of the Jewish people. He ended up serving three terms as deputy prime minister of Israel.
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Submitted March 03, 2019 at 09:33AM by laanalech90
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